Quotes About Music

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.

My music is like my freedom space.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

I have 4 kids already, I don't need anymore. I'm a single parent. I'm taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.